I remember there was a (black and white) comic book published soon after
Tienanmen showed two flags. One was a 'proposed' Hong Kong SAR flag, which was
the same as the PRC flag. excepted that, while the big star was retained to show
Chinese leadership, the four small stars were replaced by dollar signs, to show
that "Regardless of class, if you have money, you're fine".

by António Martins

The other flag, for the PRC, had the five stars replaced by skulls and
crossbones.Miles Li, 22 October 2002

Do you remember after the so-called "People's Liberation Army" of
China attacked pro-democracy demonstrators in Tianamen Square back on June 4,
1989, that some protestors carried a flag that looked like the Red Chinese flag,
except that the flag was black, the stars were red and there were streaks of
blood smeared from them?Danien Timothy Dey, 21 October 2002

I do not remember seeing this flag in connection with Tianamen Square. But I
do remember seeing a flag of this description, black with red stars, but without
the streaks of blood, flying in the Chinatown section of New York City about a
month after the Tianamen Square massacre.Devereaux Cannon, 22 October 2002

Two photos of a motorcyclist making a tour through half of Asia shows him
with flags of Pakistan and China (weird variant!) at the Kunjarab pass, the
border between Pakistan and China.Marcus Schmöger, 27 July 2002

I don't know if these people want the EU to become more like China or less
like it... However, I agree that it's a cool flag, strictly designwise.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32890640@N04/3112925335/
I should have checked the next photo on that series. I think those are people
demonstrating against the increasing government watch over the Internet and
saying Sweden and the EU is becoming more and more like communist dictatorships,
which they don't like.Elias Granqvist, 28 October 2009

As reported by AFP, 22 December 2011, the Chinese Vice President, Xi Jinping,
has been welcomed on 21 December 2011 in Vietnam by a crowd waving wrong Chinese
flags, with five small stars instead of four. In October, the Vietnamese TV
(VTV) already shown a drawing of the wrong flag to illustrate the visit of the
Secretary General of the Vietnamese Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, to China.
In the context of the rather cold relations between the two countries, which
both claim sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly Islands, the event was not
commented by official media, either in VietNam or China. In contrast, Vietnamese
websites in exile have bitterly criticized the goof, considering that some have
attempted "to make of VietNam the fifth star of China" or "to transform the
Vietnamese Communist Party into a second-rank Chinese citizen".Source:
AFP, 22 December 2011, with a color photo of the eventIvan Sache, 02 January 2012

Poor little children; so young and innocent, yet already in the news for
doing something terribly wrong. Will this traumatise them for the rest of their
lives about waving flags with stars?
Demonstrates that the smaller stars are not in a circle centred on the centre of
the large star.Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 02 January 2012

Photo of a Chinese flag being burned at a pro-Tibetan demonstration in India
is published at a
Vietnamese website. (Image)
All stars on this flag are six-pointed and small stars have the same orientation
as the large one. It is not clear if they were made as such because of ignorance
or some other reason. Whatever was the reason, it probably did not matter much
once the flag was finished, because it was meant to be destroyed anyway.
(Image is partly derived from the SVG image from
Wikipedia.)Tomislav Todorović, 08 November 2014